Alcohol Recovery Without 12 Steps Community Group

This group was created to explore various recovery paths for Alcoholism. We generally chose to explore paths outside of the AA model, or ones which incorporate, but are not limited to AA. Anyone wanting to learn and explore how to become free from alcohol addiction are welcome. Our main goal is to support each other with compassion and decency, while remaining open minded...

Off topic - Employment

Talk about leaving my ego at home! I found a P/T job on CL yesterday for a position working in a doggie day care. It's one of those places where they don't have kennels, the dogs are in open areas all day where they can socialize - WITH ME! YES!

I'd sent my "canine career" tailored resume over this morning. I stopped on my way home and the guy who posted the ad was alone and super busy with his clientele. He's at least a decade younger than I am. I, gulp, filled out an application (blast from what, 1991?) while he tended to his flock. Five pairs of brown eyes were looking at me through the glass doors of the one room. I could hear some big 'uns in the back. It's cold and pouring out so they were all inside.

Greg came back to chat periodically. I'm a personable person and until recently, had never been fired nor had I ever NOT gotten a position I interviewed for. Hey, just act the part and be confident is usually all they're looking for. We talked about dogs and he asked haha, penetrating questions trying to gauge if I just liked dogs or could I actually take being in a closed room with 10 100#ers.

I say penetrating because this was not like those high-powered interviews where they're asking you things like "What would you say your biggest weakness is" and you're supposed to say "Well, it's either that I'm a workaholic or that I just expect so much of myself... it's hard to choose just one of those!"

I asked if he'd gotten a lot of apps and he said he'd gotten more than expected and had taken down the ad. He'd been trying to talk to applicants for 15-20 mins and had a few more left this week. We got along fine. This guy was the "manager" but he manages himself, one part timer and someone who works only on Saturday... oh, and he has 35 'clients' weekly! He was on the wishy-washy side and said he'd "tryyyy to get back to everyone Monday" and when he was running back and forth, I offered to stay and help on the spot. I even said at some point I wasn't doing it for the money, I just like dogs, yada yada, done with the corporate BS, blah blah. He doesn't need to know I'M GOING NUCKING FUTS BEING STUCK IN THE HOUSE WITHOUT A LICENSE AND NO JOB POSTING ON DS ALL DAY!!!

I got back in the car with BF and I told him what he said. He laughed and said "I can't believe he'd need to interview more people?? This is a friggin part time job!"

So, I have two degrees, have volunteered at animal shelters, raised/groomed/trained show dogs as a kid, LOVE dogs and basically told him I'd work there for bones and he's gotta think about it. Maybe he's got an appointment with the Dog Whisperer later today. The job market IS pretty tough...

Yeah, dGirl. You are WAYYY overqualified. I&#039;m only fortunate in that I&#039;m a performer and rely on contracts but I have a lot of friends looking for work. I look in the local paper, two job listings in the classifieds. It is HARD out there but hey you have to start somewhere and you did. Good for you and I do hope you land this. It&#039;s a step in the right direction. Blessings!

Seriously, do you have your resume posted on all the online boards? Like Monster and Career Builder, at least? I&#039;ve had good luck with those in the past. Well, I guess you could call it good luck - I got this job I have now that I looooove so much through them - lol.

Hang in there, Kym, somethings gonna happen for you and Gerard, in the job department, I just know it!

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